#avalon organics

[avalon-knightly]

Luxord

[dailyanarchistposts]

I wrote this many years ago about my codefendant Avalon (state name: William Rodgers). He took his life today in 2005 as an act of defiance and in response to our indictments. Like most people, Avalon was complicated but a good person and kind soul.

There is not much to note that is new other than the rage I felt at listening to my rat codefendant mention his name on the Burn Wild podcast and tell a tale of how the Vail action happened (contradicted by all other accounts). RIP Avalon

dm 12.21.22

December 21st, 2007

This is a eulogy, two years too late, for my friend William Rodgers — known to friends, family and the movement as Avalon. Avalon took his life on December 21, 2005. This was just two weeks after our arrests in the Operation Backfire case and, by no coincidence, the Winter Solstice. In his absence, much has been made of his role in our Earth Liberation Front (ELF) group. Not surprisingly, the prosecutors in the case have painted him as a leader who recruited young, impressionable activists to do his bidding. This is not only false, but also insulting to the younger people in the case, who did get involved on their own. Snitches in the case have used his inability to respond to dramatically maximize his role in certain actions in an attempt to lesson the consequences of their own actions. One person went so far as submitting to the judge video evidence and testimony that has not been made public because it was deemed too personal for public consumption. Others on the margins have chosen to focus on Avalon’s flaws by spreading rumors or even by talking to the private investigators hired by the snitches.

I first met Avalon in the months leading up to the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle in late 1999 and developed a friendship with him instantly. His sly grin, easygoing and warm personality and humility impressed me, and I was happy to see that this quiet, older enviro was up to more than attending the EF! gatherings at which I first saw him. His rationality and quick thinking prevented disaster for our affinity group during the Seattle protests (I’m proud to say we took part in the Black Bloc). I distinctly remember getting ready to leave Seattle, and hearing his suggestion to “keep in touch.” Well, we did keep in touch. Much has been said of what we did in the years after that, but that will be told elsewhere.

Like so many of us, Avalon suffered from depression and despair, fueled by the realization of what our species is doing the planet. Living underground, juggling details of planned actions and double lives, and eschewing many of the things that our movement allies had access to is stressful. I know because I did it, and yet Avalon’s experience in that underground life dwarfed mine. I can’t help but think that this isolation and despair were major factors in his suicide. We moved on, and yet the cruel hand of the past — in the form of old friends and a Joint Terrorism Task Force — pulled us all back into our secret histories. Maybe for Avalon, it was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. We will never know for sure. I remember seeing his name in a list of arrestees in a New York Times article while sitting in a New York City jail. It gave me some hope — I thought we could all fight these charges together, as a group of people who had lifelong solidarity with each other, as people who honored the oaths we made to each other. Sometimes, I lie there at night asking the questions I try to avoid: Could Avalon have stemmed the tide of informing? Would he have been the person who, having known some of the snitches for much longer than I, could really reach them — beyond their fears and to their core? I’ll never know these answers, but I do know this: Avalon would rather die and make a jailbreak than cooperate in any way with this immoral and unjust process.

The prosecution, knowing only hierarchy and bureaucracy, cannot conceive of a group without a leader, a pecking order and strict rules. Without Bill around to protest and because he was older than all of us, they found their puppet master. Suddenly the so-called “book club” was his invention and was deemed a “training school for arson.” Meyerhoff and Gerlach, grand quislings that they are, had the audacity to say with a straight face that Avalon pretty much did the Vail arson all by himself. Just reading about the ski resort’s geography, the large amount of fuel that was used and Bill’s slight stature made me laugh bitterly to myself about these lies. On some level, it’s the way the game is played for snitches. The government tells them what it wants to hear, and the cooperating witnesses jump through hoops like the well-trained pets that they are. To be clear, everyone involved with these actions and the “book club” are people like you and me. We have skills — some of us excel at one thing, others of us at another. However, there was no formalized hierarchy as suggested by the prosecution, and William Rodgers was no kingpin or leader of the ELF.

Avalon, like all of us, had his flaws and made mistakes, both personally and politically, in the way he lived his life and how he resisted environmental destruction. Our group attempted to deal with one of these areas — an accusation of sexual misconduct — and I’m sorry to say that we failed, due to not being equipped with the right ideas and strategies. It is all too easy to assuage our guilt about our own shortcomings by attacking others. I think it’s a better idea to focus on what we are doing in this world, rather than criticizing people who are not here to defend themselves. I thought of this often in court when I looked at my family, seeing the pained looks on their faces as they listened to attacks on me. Bill’s family and partner have had to endure a lot of grief in the last two years.

So when I think of Avalon, I don’t believe the hype spewed by aggressive and narrow prosecutors. No, I think of a soft-spoken, caring person who would give you the shirt off his back or carry a snake off the road; an avid, even obsessive recycler; someone who supported indigenous struggles and really got the connection between Earth-based cultures and ecological action. I knew Avalon was involved in the struggle against the Mount Graham telescope, but only after his death did I find out that he and his infoshop, The Catalyst, supported the campaign to protect the San Francisco Peaks (see Earth First! Journal May-June 2005).

When snitch Jacob Ferguson recorded a conversation with me through a wiretap in 2005, I asked him how Avalon was. He lied to me (big shock!) and told me that Avalon was happy and lived in an intentional community in Canada. I remember being really happy for him and hoping to run into him again one day, but for different reasons than why we last saw each other.

Avalon has been gone two years now, and yet it still isn’t real to me. Since I haven’t seen him for years, I can’t really take it all in without getting upset. Yes, one of our own betrayed us, and that action caused the death of my friend. How do I reconcile the truth? I don’t have a good answer except to say that we need to talk about these things and confront death in our movement. We need to grieve for our friends. Most of all, we cannot forget. This is my contribution to never forgetting William Rodgers: radical environmentalist, ELF activist, cave lover and sweet, kind man. I miss you, buddy.

–As printed in the Earth First! Journal, November-December 2007 issue.

[avalon-princesss]

spring sale in my etsy shop 🍄 via // avalon princess

[firespirited]

if you can get past the cheese (some of those synths have not aged well), here's a flat out banger.

The riff is sampled flipped and reversed over the Downward Spiral theme on Closer by NIN - thx to @/iximusic (go watch her stuff!)

[bobcat-pie]

not enough weird facts about apple trees. You can graft bits of them onto each other. cmon please please please i bet they're insane and Big Apple is hiding it from us

[livvyofthelake]

always crazy when someone randomly likes a post i made like a year ago about whatever movie i was obsessed with at the time. like ok where did you even find that. yeah i know i tagged it but it had three notes all from the mutuals… where did you come from…

[kaeraesketches]

And here’s my second contribution to the Minisode Minibang! This is still somewhat of a WIP…I’m not happy with some parts of the piece, so I’ll likely post a revised version in the near future. For this one, I worked with my amazing author Snowfilly1! The story they wrote is so vivid, I feel like this art still doesn’t do it justice! I’ll link it below, go read it!! Right now!

[mochiwrites]

title: the avalon saga

warning(s): graphic depictions of violence, (minor) character death

chapter(s): 1/3

relationship: scar/grian (established) | scar & pearl

summary:

Scar breathes in, beginning to speak, “Alright everyone, time to listen up–and closely. Tonight’s the night we make the Avalonians pay; this is our one chance you hear? We don’t get any do-overs if we mess this up.” He speaks in a quiet hush, feeling the eyes of thirty men on him. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. The fire in his hand burns bright. Humans by nature follow the man who shows his confidence, the man who enters a situation with a plan, a clear head. Scar wears his confidence like a mask, clear and obvious, and striking to anyone’s eye. He looks at his men with a spark in his eye, one of danger and self-assuredness. “Do what I say, and we’ll all make it out of here alive.”

it's been seven years since scar has seen his family. his journey home finally begins.

read on ao3 here!

REBLOGS DO MORE THAN LIKES

FINALLY. THE SCARIAN EPIC AU BEGINS >:D wisdom saga broke my resolve and I'm sitting down to finally write out the au. I'm !!!!!! super excited to start this omg hehehehe. if you know epic the musical. have fun. if you DON'T know epic the musical. :)

[avalon-knightly]

I apparently cannot draw in a normal sketchbook. This was drawn in a book with lined paper, then taped into a book with weirder lines, which has a bunch of post-it note sketches taped into it 😐

Anyways, berserk Saïx.

[torchflies]

Tom loves listening to Janis Joplin; he has since he was seven years old, riding high on his Daddy’s shoulders at the Avalon — before everything.

Before a passing conversation with a photographer who noticed a particularly photogenic child, before six years of non-stop movies on a Disney contract before puberty hit and made him unmarketable, before the inception of Tommy, before he was drinking his breakfast, lunch and dinner: taking uppers to get through the day and downers to sleep — just, before.

(Ice struggles with the person he used to be and tries not to join the 27 Club).

[casper-spills]

✧ ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔖𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩: 𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲? ✧

01. Green witch

The Green Witch embraces nature by drawing on the energies from the earth and of untamed things. They commune with the land, with stones and gems and they reley on plants, flowers and herbs. They call to nature for guidance and respects every living being and they have a strong belief that humans must give back to world and protect it. They tend to be animal/environmental activists and they will go the extra mile to spread awareness.

The Green Witch makes their own ritual tools from found objects in nature and they make sure these are ethically sourced materials. They might also work with Animal Guides and Plant Spirits. The forest is the Green Witch's sacred temple and they often spend time hiking or visiting parks and gardens.

Books I recommend:

The Green Witch ~ Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs ~ Scott Cunningham

Occult Botany ~ Paul Sedir

The Treadwell's Book of Plant Magic ~ Christina Oakley Harrington

Wortcunning ~ Nigel G. Pearson

02. Crystal Witch

Crystal Witches focus their magick on healing and manifesting. Crystals are known for their healing energies due to their ability to raise one's own vibration. Crystals emit this constant vibration, that when met with a lower vibration, has the ability to raise, in turn, providing healing qualities through an energetic level, which can therefore fast track our own physical healing.

Crystal Witches may also be drawn to rocks and stones alike and generally appreciate the gift of nature. They may also be attracted to the study of geology and often work with chakras/practice chakra meditation.

Books I recommend:

The Power of Crystal Healing ~ Emma Lucy Knowles

The Zenned Out Guide to Understanding Crystals ~ Cassie Uhl

The Crystal Workshop ~ Azalea Lee

Crystals for Witches ~ Eliza Mabelle

03. Kitchen Witch

The Kitchen Witch’s potion is a soup and they’re magical wand is a trusty wooden spoon. Cooking becomes a sacred art for the Kitchen Witch. A Kitchen Witch may not often dedicate a specific time and resources to ceremony, instead they work intuitively rather than ritually to find the magic in everyday life.

Kitchen Witches personalise their space with great intention and care. They instantly know when a space resonates with them or not. They often cook with whole, organic foods and they may also grow their own food. They also tend to enchant ingrediants before using them in a dish and they might sometimes make dishes to treat illnesses.

Books I recommend:

Potions, Elixirs & Brews ~ Anais Alexandre

The Wicca Cookbook ~ Jamie Wood & Tara Seefeldt

Wicca in the Kitchen ~ Scott Cunningham

The Magick of Food ~ Gwion Raven

`04. Sea Witch

A sea witch is a practitioner of witchcraft whose spiritual focus and magical practices are closely tied to the sea and its elements. They use the potent energy of the ocean as a force to drive spellcraft, cleanse the soul and renew the spirit. Sea Witches forge a deep bond with the sea and its inhabitants, working with its energy to manifest their intentions and achieve their goals.

Sea Witches are naturally sensitive and empathetic. The ocean is their sacred space and often times they might live near the ocean or are very drawn to it. They are also very drawn to stroms and enjoy the rain. They might study oceanic mythology and sea animals. They also often collect seashells, pebbles or other beach treasures and may use them in their craft.

Books I recommend:

Sea Witch's Companion ~ Levannah Morgan

Sea Magic ~ Sandra Kynes

Water Witchcraft ~ Annwyn Avalon

Mermaids ~ Skye Alexander

05. Divination Witch

The Divination Witch focuses primarily on divination practices such as tarot & oracle, pendulum, scrying, runes, tea leaf reading, meditation, and connecting to your inner guides/higher being. To them, it’s most important to incorporate these divination practices to their everyday life, or at least in ceremonial rituals.

A Divination Witch may draw power from the earthly elements, mediation, or with the help of seasonal changes that open portals and lower the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds. For those highly in-tuned with their intuition, have the ability to hear, see, or sense what others can’t, find themselves as an empath, and have the uncanny ability to predict the future.

Books I recommend:

The Book of Divination ~ Michael Johnstone

I Ching or Book of Changes ~ C.G. Jung & Richard Wilhelm

Tarot Card Meanings ~ Brigit Esselmont

Chakra Healing ~ Margarita Alcantara

06. Lunar/Cosmic Witch

A Lunar Witch has a fascination and connection with the skies, stars, moon and planets are unparalleled. With the fundamental belief that what happens above in the cosmos is a direct correlation to what happens on Earth, Cosmic Witches focus their study on astrological transits, moon phases, and intertwining that with their own natal birth charts. A strong belief is that as we are born, we are given a blueprint, a snapshot of the skies, that presents past, present and future forecasts of not only ourselves as an individual, but as a collective, sometimes generational viewpoint too.

They draw their power from the Moon and perform certain spells and rituals depending on the phase of the moon.

Books I recommend:

Moon Magic ~ Aurora Kane

Moon Spells ~ Diane Ahlquist

Moon Magic ~ Diane Ahlquist

Witchs Moon ~ Edain McCoy

✧ 𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 100 𝔣𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔰! ℌ𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔶 ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫! ✧

Special thanks to @rainychibikko @googiekook @attymi @miraclekay97 @julyourwitch @honeytarotmind @honnuey @notakitsune @mercurialstime @artscapismsworld

[velvet-cupcake-games]

excellent choice re: will’s new name!

now this is a lore question: was john’s mum from a different tribe than their dad? considering his name is from a different language and tribe than Will’s. we know Will’s mum’s origins, but not a lot on John’s mum. am i veering into lore book spoilers (is there such a thing)

So here's the beginning of the skinny on how Sunjata is organized. Like how my Avalon is loosely inspired by various Medieval-approximate European cultures, Sunjata is loosely inspired by various North-West-Central African cultures. Emphasis on the "loosely inspired" for both nations.

Sunjata is a continent of city-states that has a strong emphasis on technology and trade. It is more technologically advanced than Avalon, with things like aquaduct systems (and more modern-style plumbing!) and dynamite.

The thing that unites Sunjata is a single religion and a single language. Hundreds of years ago, it is said that the god Amun devoured all the other gods, ending their constant battles against one another. With his greatly enhanced divine power, Amun blessed the bloodlines of his most devout worshippers, essentially giving them superpowers. These Blessed Bloodlines went on to conquer the continent and found the great city states that rule over Sunjata today. With the common religion and its conquests came a massive upheaval/movement of people and a common language that swept across the continent (the holdout tribes who continue to worship the old gods are more likely to have held onto their traditional languages as well - these tribes hold the great heresy that Amun did not devour, but instead imprisoned their gods).

Names in Sunjata descend from its variety of pre-Amunite languages and tend to follow certain regional trends, but for Amunites they are no longer connected to specific tribal identities. Sunjati continue to have strong kinship ties, but their cultural identity is generally tied to their city-state and to the Amunite religion in general. Thus you'll have family members with names from different Earth African cultures, similarly to how North American names are a real cultural mishmash (In my own family, my name derives originally from Hebrew and my sister's from Greek, but they're both considered standard American names - Sunjata at this point in history is similar).

That said, John's mother was not from his village. His father travelled often as the village chief, negotiating trade agreements with merchants in the larger settlements and the city-states. He met her on one of those journeys, just as he met Will's mother years after her death.

I haven't yet put together the finer details of Sunjati culture as I plan to do a lot more reading, research, and consultation before writing my second game (set in Sunjata with a Sunjati MC).

[kumiaku]

Kinktober 2024 Collection

Beep boop, guess who's participating this year! Me! Hi, hello, yes, I have the first couple days ready as well as a list.

List is below the cut -

Omg you actually clicked.

Anyway, here is the list. The Asterisk* Means I am not set on it, there will be an alternative list as well, so if you'd rather see one of those, you can tell me and I might replace it. 

Day 1 - Harness - Dottore (Genshin Impact) (Link)

Day 2 - Threesome - Black Swan, Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail) (Link)

Day 3 - Crossdressing - Kirschtaria Wodime (Fate/Grand Order) (Link)

Day 4 -  Knotting/Breeding - Maliketh (Elden Ring) (Link)

Day 5 - Masturbation - Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) (Link)

Day 6 - S&M - Tartaglia (Genshin Impact) * (Link)

Day 7 - Daddy Kink/Pseudo-Incest/TeacherxStudent - Arlecchino (Genshin Impact) (Link)

Day 8 - Belly Bulge/Size Kink - Radahn (Elden Ring) * (Link)

Day 9 - Sharing/Voyeurism - Hu Tao, Zhongli (Genshin Impact) * (Link)

Day 10 - Tentacles - Moon Presence (Bloodborne) (Link)

Day 11 - Uniform/Gangbang - Fatui Grunts (Genshin Impact) (Link)

Day 12 - Temperature Play - Shenhe (Genshin Impact) * (Link)

Day 13 - Branding - Kinich (Genshin Impact) (Link)

Day 14 - Breathplay - Patches (Soulsbornering) (Link)

Day 15 - Double Penetration - Neuvillette (Genshin Impact) * (Link)

Day 16 - Object Insertion - Mhin (Touchstarved Game) (Link)

Day 17 - BDSM - Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (Link)

Day 18 - Pregnancy - Marika/Radagon (Elden Ring) * (Link)

Day 19 - Knife/Sword Play - Lady Maria (Bloodborne) (Link)

Day 20 - Oral Fixation - Laios (Dungeon Meshi) (Link)

Day 21 - Hate Sex - Pantalone (Genshin Impact) * 

Day 22 - Somnophilia - Gehrman (Bloodborne) * 

Day 23 - Sex Pollen - Kabru (Dungeon Meshi) * 

Day 24 - Pegging/Dacryphilia - Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)

Day 25 - Blackmail - Ningguang, Yelan (Genshin Impact) 

Day 26 - Forced Prostitution/Praise Kink - Capitano (Genshin Impact) 

Day 27 - Aftercare - Edmond Dantes (Fate Grand Order) 

Day 28 - Fear Kink - Feixiao (Honkai: Star Rail) *

Day 29 - Swallowing/Body Worship - Dimitri (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) 

Day 30 - Monsterfucking - Ebrietas (Bloodborne) 

Day 31 - Deep Throating - Gwyndolin (Dark Souls) 

Alright, now that we got the list down, let me go over some alternatives. I got a lot. :)

Alt 1 - Temperature Play - Jingliu (HSR) (Link)

Alt 2 - Double Penetration - Malleus Draconia (TWST) 

Alt 3 - Teacher x Student - Cynthia (Pokemon) 

Alt 4 - Somnophilia - Xiao (Genshin Impact) 

Alt 5 - Hate Sex - Oberon-Vortigern (Fate Grand Order) 

Alt 6 - Object Insertion - Albedo (Genshin Impact) or Ranni (Elden Ring) 

Alt 7 - Face Sitting - Eula (Genshin Impact) 

Alt 8 - Orgasm Denial/Overstimulation - Riddle (TWST) 

Alt 9 - Public Sex - Robin (HSR) 

Alt 10 - Selfcest/Threesome - Merlin, Lady Avalon (Fate Grand Order) 

Alt 11 - Master/Servant - The Plain Doll (Bloodborne)

Alt 12 - Sharing - Enkidu, Gilgamesh (Fate Grand Order) 

Alt 13 - Lactation - Raiden Shogun (Genshin Impact) or Rennala (Elden Ring) 

Alt 14 - Aftercare - Fia (Elden Ring) 

Alt 15 - Pregnancy - Rennala (Elden Ring) 

Alt 16 - Soft/Romantic - Ereshkigal (Fate Grand Order) 

Alt 17 - Rika (Pokemon). Just Rika. That's literally the pitch, I just want her. 

Alt 18 - Toxic Relationship - Volo (Pokemon) or Belos (The Owl House) (when they go low, go lower, is the idea) 

Alt 19 - Crossdressing - Yuri (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) 

Alt 20 - Monsterfucking - Ludwig (Bloodborne) or Enjou (Genshin Impact) or Lusamine (Pokemon) or Esther (my fic, Hunter of the Cosmos) 

Alt 21 - Cult - Rika, Saeran, V (Mystic Messenger) or Belos, Hunter (The Owl House) 

Alt 22 - Crack - Claude/Wriothesley (Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Genshin Impact) 

Other possible fandoms include - Baldur's Gate 3, BNHA, LOTR/The Hobbit, Demon Slayer, and more - just ask and recommend! (recommend me My Little Pony fanfic ideas, I will comply) 

As I said, any with the asterisk are replaceable with any of the ideas above. Please feel free to suggest different ideas, if I like them I might go crazy and write a day .5 or just switch something out.

Generally, each will include the reader as the main character using second pov (so you/your) so most should be gender neutral, but with some of the chapters the reader would use specific biology so the chapters where it is relevant I will call it out. If there are any pronouns used, they will be they/them, if I slip up please lmk. Always open to constructive criticism, as the main purpose of this challenge is actually to have me learn to write a variety of different characters + scenarios that are briefer than 10k words per chapter in a shorter period of time. 

Wherever you are and whoever you are, I hope you have a good day!

[ebonyfirewolf]

Merlin gets ready for a gala and invites a princess along.

[hannahhook7744]

Mother Of All Who Need It;

Summary: Hunith saves all of Avalon by becoming a mother to all those who need it.

And boy, do a lot of people throughout the lands NEED it.

Archive Warning: None.

Category: F/M, Gen, Other.

Relationships: Past Hunith/Bailnor, Background/Cameo Relationships, etc.

Character Tags: Merlin, Hunith, Will, etc.

Tags: William of Ealdor Lives, Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies, Teenagers, Young Love, etc.

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: For many long years Merlin waited. For the other part of his soul, for the other half of his life. He was born to serve Arthur. So that meant he was also born to wait. Even if it took a thousand years. Even if the wait seemed never to end. Until one day, suddenly, it did. When Arthur stumbles from the Lake of Avalon 1,500 years after his death, he finds a world unlike the one he knew. Faced with the loss of everyone he loved, and the threat of impending prophecy, Arthur must learn what it means to be not just a king, but the Once and Future King. Merlin does all he can to guide him, even as he struggles to hide his love for his king, and his fear of losing him again. Story includes sass, banter, horseplay, & True Love.

Author: @katherynefromphilly

Submitter: @agayprince

Note from submitter: This is only part one of a series of fanfics where Arthur is resurrected and is reunited with Merlin once again. You don't even need to read the full series, just with part one it feels as if it's the Season 6 Merthur fans long for. It truly fits in so well with what might happen if it had been a continuation of the show, which this fic essentially is.